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...Travis R. Kavulla ’06, Jasmine J. Mahmoud...
...define feminism, how to construct a theory and a praxis that is meaningfully inclusive, how to describe the subject of feminism, how to examine an array of areas of feminist inquiry (including motherhood, marriage and sexuality) and how to engage with the state to further feminist goals. Kavulla paints a picture of unintellectual “groupthink” without fully investigating the complex questions that undergird the discipline...
...While Kavulla claims that women’s studies promotes a “tunnel vision” where students are encouraged to engage in ”feminist thought first,” the very notion of what constitutes “feminist thought” is problematized, interrogated and critiqued as part of the central project of women’s studies. This is not unlike the work that occurs in any other department. That is, history concentrators study history as they also grapple with what constitutes history, who crafts history, what methods are used to collect history...
Women’s studies concentrators are required to engage in the project of theoretical and political positionality and to grapple with complex questions surrounding identity, subject position, intersections of social hierarchies, feminist methodology, etc. That Kavulla failed to represent any of this in his simplified caricature of women’s studies is a disservice to members of the community who have not yet taken a course in women’s studies and who take Kavulla’s representation to have merit...
Travis R. Kavulla ’06 is a history concentrator in Mather House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays...